My name is Paul and have been in the hobby for about 20 years. I live in Alaska and have been here Alaska for about 36 years...l like it. My favorite things to do here are hunting and fishing in the summer, and skiing and snowmobiling in the winter. As far as reefing goes... The first year was a steep learning curve, but I succeeded plowing through books, shopping for equipment, and collecting coral from many sources including our local club (Alaskafragswap). We have only one store in town for buying corals (Alaska Coral Fanatics), and I visit it almost every day to check on the inventory.

The tank is a 220 Tenecor acrylic with large marine overflows. In the water sits 300 pounds of reef rock, approximately 30 corals, about 20 fish, and the 8 powerheads and 4 return nozzles provide massive flow (about 10,000 gallons an hour when all on at the same time). The custom light hood houses 4 250w 10000K HIQ's and 3 72" Actinics.

The main filtration is the 300 pounds of reef rock for bio, and skimmers for mechanical. Sometimes a canister filter will be tied in just downstream from the UV to place carbon or GFO in. Sump socks during cleanings and water changes.

-Display Tank Lighting-
1000 Watts of 10000K Halides
400 Watts of Actinics
10 Moonlights
Timing Cycle is 8 hours Actinics and 6 hours Halides.
-Refugium light- is 65 Watt CF Grow that is on 24 hours a day.
-Frag tank lights burn 14 hours a day. Running 1 250 Watt 10000k, and actinics at spectrum level 420nm and 460 nm.

Sump is a 75 gallon AGA with 3 custom made chambers. The middle chamber is the refugium filled with sand, rock, mangroves, and macro algae. Hardware includes: Two skimmers, UV Sterilizer, Ozone (ORP 375 mV's), Phosphate Reactor, Calcium Reactor, Coiled Denitrator, and the ATO is from a 55 gallon holding tank of RO/DI (daily system evaporation is 3.5 gallons per day).

I have about 40 different corals that I will be listing soon after complete identifications has been made.

Includes Leathers, Sponges, LPS, and SPS corals.

SEE VIDEO AT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W57k n8MXkwM
Naso Tang
Sailfin Tang
Regal Tang
Yellow Tang
Tamini Tang
Copperband Butterfly Fish
Lyre tail Anthias (1 male, 2 femails)
Mccosker's flasher wrasse
Strawberry Pseudochromis
Red headed Pseudochromis
Clarkie Clown Fish
2 True Precula Clown Fish
Tail Spot Blenny
Green Mandarin
Target Mandarin
2 Scooter Blennies
Engineer Goby
Long Nose Hawkfish
Dusky Headed Jawfish
Blue Spotted Jawfish
Yellow Headed Jawfish
Black Molley (acclimated to salt)
Tiger Tail Cucumber
Xlarge Sally Lightfoot Crab
2 Clams
2 x-large Anemonies (red, seabae)
100 crabs (scarlets, blue legs, and emeralds)
100 snails (nerite, turbo, asteriea)
2 sand siffting stars
and a horseshoe crab